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Summary of Results from Pilots GRASP University of Patras

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MED workshop, “Innovation for renewable

energy and energy efficiency solutions in

Mediterranean regions and cities”

Summary of Results from Pilots

A. INTRODUCTION

The Mediterranean area has great potential for increasing renewable energy use and lowering energy efficiency to address the energy needs of both PAs and SMEs. In line with the Lisbon1 and Goteborg2 strategies, in the period 2007 – 2013 the MED Programme has actively addressed these concerns through the activities developed by 28 transnational projects operating in 13 countries. Mediterranean cities and regions have been developing capacity to increase use of renewable energy and tackle the energy efficiency challenge through innovative and sustainable solutions, thus boosting new economic opportunities.

The MED Programme workshop, ‘Innovation for renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions in Mediterranean regions and cities’ took place in Brussels on the 18th of June 2015. The workshop was organized by projects GRASP and EMILIE in the framework of the European Union Sustainable Energy Week 2015, and was hosted by the Delegation of the Catalonia Government to the European Union in Brussels. The aim of the workshop was to give a synthetic overview of what has been accomplished in the implementation of technical solutions and harmonization of standards in the Energy field in the MED area, with a view to integration and

1 To improve the area's competitiveness in a way that guarantees growth and employment

for the next generations 2 To promote territorial cohesion and environmental protection, according to the logic of

sustainable development

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capitalisation. The workshop highlighted the specific findings by 14 MED projects in the fields of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Energy Efficiency (EE). These findings integrate elements in energy performance improvement; development and evaluation of green energy tenders; creation of databases, platforms and clusters; good practices in identification of energy needs and knowledge transfer; pilot activities and monitoring; training materials; and engagement of civil society. The projects supported Mediterranean Public Procurers (PPs) and SMEs who are active in the RES and EE fields, and acknowledged them as key actors in the process of fostering the low carbon society with a bottom up approach. Following up with a closure to the workshop, the participating projects that implemented pilots and tests with distinct output kindly shared their findings. This document has been developed by GRASP project aiming to present a summary of these findings, i.e., the main results from the pilots and test performed by the participating projects. These projects are listed below.

CO-EFFICIENT

Aims to advance innovation and available technologies for EE and use of renewable

resources in operations and production processes of MED SMEs.

EMILIE

Aims to retrofit, innovate and develop solutions to make existing tertiary buildings

“greener”.

ENCERTICUS

ICT-based energy awareness service for energy-efficient social housing in MED area;

deals with inhabitants’ resource use behavior.

ENERCOAST

Aims at providing a state-of-the-art of the RE sector in solar cooling systems, tidal/

current plants, heat pumps and wind turbines plants.

E2STORMED

Faces the challenge of reducing energy consumption to make cities more sustainable,

focusing on water and wastewater facilities.

GRASP

Aims to increase potential of MED Smart cities in organizing and developing Smart and

Green e-Procurement processes focusing on RES and energy efficient solutions.




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GREEN PARTNERSHIPS

Aims to support local administrations to overcome obstacles and effectively implement

measures for energy efficient cities and regions.

MAIN

Aims to disseminate countermeasures to the Urban Heat Island effect, emphasizing

smart, intelligent materials, such as cool roofs and cool pavements.

MARIE

The aim of MARIE project is to build up capacities in the Mediterranean region with a

view to enhancing the energy performance of buildings.

PVNET

Aims to develop better energy policy for the promotion of REs in MED countries,

targeting the best and most cost efficient use of PV technology.

REPUBLIC MED

Focuses on development and experimentation of a new method for conducting

complete techno-economic studies for refurbishment of public buildings and open

public spaces.

SINERGIA

Aims to increase energy performance by transfer of innovation to agro-food SMEs in the

Mediterranean area

SMARTINMED

Aims to strengthen strategic cooperation between economic development players and

PAs by supporting SMEs innovation capacities and development potential in RE and EE.




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B. KEY WORDS

S/N PROJECT KEYWORDS RESULTS

KEYWORDS

1 CO-EFFICIENT

at

e-Services, energy efficiency, planning, companies, collaboration, living labs,

SMEs

improvement, simulation, tools

2 EMILIE

et SMEs, building, energy efficiency,

innovation, heating, cooling energy savings,

emissions, forecast

3 ENCERTICUS

efg

mobile application, electricity monitoring, conservation, water

conservation, households

reduction, savings

4 ENERCOAST

t

blue growth, renewable energy, marine-coastal areas, technologies, energy

needs, solutions, priority

payback period, environmental,

impacts

5 E2STORMED

p

Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), software, stormwater management,

buildings, green roof

energy savings, emissions

6 GRASP

elnt procurement, public authorities, SMEs, database, green products, green criteria

comparisons, energy savings,

tools

7 GREENPARTNERSHIPS

alr

energy efficiency housing, energy efficiency public buildings, bioclimatic

design, biomass, public lighting

feasibility studies, models, reduction

8 MAIN

v

building materials, construction sector, criteria definition, software, thermal

behavior, educational program

education, installation

9 MARIE

lt

renovation, building, legislation, materials, public tenders, market,

network, platform

models, tools, platform

10 PVNET

mn

meteorological measurements, PV, energy consumption, domestic consumers, NEM consumers,

optimisation

data, optimisation

11 REPUBLIC-MED

dn behavior profile, computational tools, building, retrofit, indicators, criteria

retrofits, optimisation

12 SINERGIA

em

energy consumption, energy consumption, data, enterprises, industry,

tool

energy consumption,

selection

13 SMARTINMED

t company evaluation, green business

model, innovation, public tender, SMEs

analysis, tools




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C. GLOSSARY

RES = Renewable Energy Sources

RE = Renewable Energy

EE = Energy Efficiency

PA = Public Authority

a = adaptation d = demonstration e = evaluation f = information g = integration l = implementation m = monitoring, measuring n = analysis p = promotion r = training t = testing v = development




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D. PILOTS

CO-EFFICIENT

PILOT 1 (Italy)

Testing and adaptation of Services with companies

Logistics Optimisation eService was used for improving the daily mission planning as

well as for simulation to support strategic model definitions and investment

decisions with quantitative estimations of their possible impacts. Estimations show

savings of 160.000 km travelled in one year.

Document Dematerialization eService was used for sparing the company clerks the

effort of managing large volumes of paper documents as well as making it possible

to identify important energy savings at every stage of document management.

Distributed Planning eService does not show immediately its energy saving

potential because it seems to be oriented to better coordination of the company’s

network. However, eService results in energy saving mechanisms including those

considered by the other two eServices. It likely presents the strongest energy

efficiency improvements.

PILOT 2 (Slovenia)

Testing and adaptation of eServices with transport companies

Intensive trial for one month aims to define achievements with the transport eService in

participating companies. Transport eService was used as a simulation eService with real

data provided by participating companies for the testing period.

The following saving was identified:

Estimated distance saved in 1 year: 495.860 km

Estimated CO2 saved in 1 year: 108.000 kg

PILOT 3 (France)


Document Dematerialization eService was tested with mixed results: even though

effective, the eService needs to be amended to specific requirements before wider

implementation.




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PILOT 4 (Croatia)

Testing and adaptation of eServices with companies

Document Dematerialization eService was tested with mixed results: even though

effective, the eService needs to be amended to specific requirements before wider

implementation

PILOT 5 (Spain)


Implementation of the three eServices was problematic - low diffusion of ICT in Croatia

amongst SMEs, unwillingness for inter-company cooperation (even within cluster), use

of eServices for activities out of scope of operations.

PILOT 6 (Italy)

Co-creation of a Frame of reference for EE, and use of renewable resources in

production, operations, and testing of analytical tool developed within the

project

Logistics Optimisation eService: basis of future development of the eService has

been developed. Future testing and development of the eService will be after end of

project, to develop software of utility and interest for road freight transport

companies.

Dematerialization has shown high potential for improvement of daily management

of transport companies. Delays during deployment of pilots have not permitted to

test the tool in a more extensive way in real life.

The “Objectiff CO2” scheme has received high attention from transport community.

Its potential to directly produce energy and financial savings, and the synergies

found of this eService with recent initiatives of the Spanish government (i.e. Spanish

Registry of Carbon footprint) have motivated the companies to engage the pilot.

Cumulative results of Spanish show absolute potential fuel savings of more than

600.000 litres of fuel.




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PILOT 7 (Slovenia)

Co-creation of a frame of reference for EE, and use of renewable resources in


project

The analytical tool is meant to support SMEs in improving EE and in using RES in key

production processes. With help by external experts, SMEs participated in identifying

and addressing their main weaknesses in EE, and the use of RES in their business

processes. Results of these processes were used to define the tool.

PILOT 8 (France)



project

The analytical tool is to support SMEs in improving EE and in using RES in key production

processes. With help by external experts, SMEs participated in identifying and

addressing their main weaknesses in EE, and the use of RES in their business processes.

Results of these processes were used to define the tool.

PILOT 9 (Croatia)



project





PILOT 10 (Spain)


production, operations and testing of analytical tool developed within the

project








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EMILIE

PILOT 1 (Italy)

Test solar cooling and heating technologies

Power Installed (kW): 20 cooling/ 40 solar collectors

Energy savings forecast based on experimental data (kWh/year)

- 3500 (electric for cold TBC)

- 35000 (thermal HW TBC)

€ invested/ Energy savings during a 15 years life time (€/kWh): 0,173

CO2 emissions avoided (kg/year):8600

Chiller Coefficient of performance (%): 65 (TBC)

On the basis of first experimental results, cooling energy savings is calculated with

reference to typical compression chiller with average COP equal to 3,5. CO2 emissions

avoided are calculated taking into account both partners’ national electricity emission

factors and a conventional gas emission factor of 202 gCO2/kWh for Hot Water

production.

PILOT 2 (Croatia)

Test solar cooling and heating technologies

Power Installed (kW): 20 cooling/ 44 solar collectors

Energy savings forecast based on experimental data (kWh/year)

5000 (electric for cold TBC)

35000 (thermal HW TBC)

€ invested/ Energy savings during a 15 years life time (€/kWh): 0,224

CO2 emissions avoided (kg/year):8200

Chiller Coefficient of performance (%): 54 (TBC)

On the basis of first experimental results, cooling energy savings is calculated with

reference to typical compression chiller with average COP equal to 3,5. CO2 emissions

avoided are calculated taking into account both partners’ national electricity emission

factors and a conventional gas emission factor of 202 gCO2/kWh for Hot Water

production.




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PILOT 3 (Spain)

To improve the performance of the HVAC system of a specific building by

improving the insulation of the distribution facilities and implementing

other energy efficient measures in order to increase the COP of the whole

system.

Energy savings forecast based on experimental data (kWh/year): 13828 (Electricity

TBC)

€ invested /15 years Energy savings (€/kWh): 0,141

CO2 emissions avoided (kg/year): 11160

PILOT 4 (Spain)

To evaluate and assess the energy consumption reduction in tertiary

buildings by using the PCM technology in windows

Energy savings forecast based on experimental data (kWh/year): 12000 (Electricity,

fuel heating and cooling TBC)



PILOT 5 (France)

Test new technologies to lower building energy consumption, by energy

metering actions and by empowering occupants to reduce their

consumption through user friendly actions

Energy savings forecast based on experimental data (kWh/year): 1445 (heating and

cooling TBC)




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ENCERTICUS To provide households detailed use information in a meaningful way

To engage individual households as active players in developing water and

energy conservation practices

To evaluate “user-friendly” and widely accessible models of energy

awareness services applied in 3 categories of tenants and housing

buildings

To obtain conclusions about the cost-effectiveness and impact on resource

use behavior change of each model

To integrate monitoring models with Energy certification scheme, and to

evaluate how to improve the user acceptance of the energy certificate, and

its accuracy against the real energy performance of residential buildings.

PILOT 1 (Spain)

The achieved savings in Manresa pilot site are (8 months period):

Reduction in electricity use 6,93% (1967 kWh)

Reduction in water use 1,86% (16,6 m3)

Reduction in heating use 1% (1336 kWh).

PILOT 2 (Italy)

The achieved savings in Prato pilot site are (12 months period): Reduction in electricity

use 10% (4082 kWh).

PILOT 3 (France)

The achieved savings in Marseille pilot site are (8 months period):

Reduction in electricity use 1,2% (496 kWh)

Reduction in heating use 3,78% (5256 kWh).



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ENERCOAST

PILOT 1 (Italy)

Testing feasibility of installation of small, vertical axis wind turbines in Marina

of Rimini.

Total capital cost 258.852,18€.

Generally landscape problems, but minimal in this case.

PILOT 2 (Italy)

Testing feasibility of sea water heat pump to cover the heating and cooling

needs of a sailing club building in city of Crotone, Italy.

Payback period of 2.8 years of the additional cost compared to boiler-air

conditioning system.

Discharge of warm water to the sea.

Discharge of antifouling chemicals.

PILOT 3 (Slovenia)

Testing application solar cooling to cover the energy needs of a health care

center at Bonifika Koper, Slovenia.

Payback period of 14,5 years with 50% co-financing by public resources.

No or minimal negative impacts on environment

PILOT 4 (Slovenia)

Testing feasibility of sea water heat pump to cover the energy needs of the

passenger terminal of port of Koper in Slovenia.

Payback period of 40,6 years with 50% co-financing by public resources. No

significant environmental problems.

PILOT 5 (Croatia)

Examining feasibility of use of solar cooling in combination with sea water

heat pumps to cover the energy needs of hotel Jadran at Rijeka, Croatia.

Profitable only by co-financing by public resources (25-50%).



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No major environmental concerns.

PILOT 6 (Croatia)

Examining feasibility of sea water heat pump for heating elementary

school Ivan Gundulić at port Gruž, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Not economically feasible even with 50% co-financing from the public resources.

No major environmental concerns.

PILOT 7 (Greece)

Examining feasibility of wave energy to cover the energy needs of the

auxiliary engines of ships while at berth at port of Igoumenitsa.

Not economically feasible.

Negligible effects on GHG emissions, Visual obstruction, Birds

Might be important: Noise and vibration, Wave dynamics along the shoreline

PILOT 8 (Greece)

Testing feasibility of use of floating wind turbine to cover the energy needs

of three hotel units at Lassi, Cephalonia Island, Greece

Payback period: 10o -11o years.

Uncertainty on environmental impact because of lack of data.

Might be important: Noise, marine li



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E2STORMED Improve EE in the urban water cycle and in buildings by promoting the use

Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in MED cities.

Address the critical issue of rolling out innovative technologies by

promoting a transition process in the pilot cases and their regions.

The main tools developed to promote this process are a Transition Manual,

a Decision Support Tool (DST) and a Strategic Action Plan for each pilot.

A Regional Working Group on EE in the urban water cycle has been created

in each pilot city to allow the participation of the main actors related to

energy, water and urban development in this transition process.

The transition process has achieved great engagement of local and regional

stakeholders in 6 municipalities. They have understood the SuDS philosophy, and

changes in urban stormwater management have already begun in most cases.

Results of application of DST in general show that SuDS can reduce significantly the

energy consumed and the emissions in urban stormwater management at the same

costs or even lower than the conventional systems. In addition, they have clear

social and environmental advantages.

Finally, the results of the green roof monitoring in Benaguasil have showed that it

clearly improves the building insulation, producing energy savings especially in

summer. This savings are about 30% of the energy consumed in the refrigeration

system in comparison with a conventional roof.

PILOT 1 (Spain)

PILOT 2 (Italy)

PILOT 3 (Malta)

PILOT 4 (Greece)

PILOT 5 (Montenegro)

PILOT 6 (Croatia)



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GRASP

PILOT 1 (Italy)

The current method of lowest price related to products respecting the

minimum environmental requirements, was compared with the Life Cycle Cost

(LCC) analysis, taking into account a tender that respects the sustainability and

the environmental impact of the products purchased.

Desktops: The purchase of a more environmental-friendly product is the most cost-

efficient choice. Apart from saving on energy costs, the green product can also

reduce emissions drastically through avoiding 4,187 tons of CO2 over 5 years.

Monitors: The environmental-friendly product is the better investment since, over a

5 year period the energy costs were nearly 1/10 of the cost of the lowest-priced

product. In addition, during the 5 years, 2,433 tons of CO2 were avoided, and the

total life cycle cost of the environmental-friendly product was approximately 8.6 %

of the total life cycle cost of the lowest priced product.

PILOT 2 (Malta)

Tender for the supply and delivery of items of Information Technology (IT)

equipment for setting up of an Ultra Wide Band Laboratory at Department of

Physics at University of Malta, using GRASP tools.

The environment-friendly product did not meet all necessary criteria for being a green

product. In particular, the energy consumption of the lowest priced item was nearly half

that of the product used to represent the green option. Therefore, it is comparatively

not the more green option in all categories, negatively affecting the results. Another

point is the maintenance. When there is no data for maintenance, the fields in

calculation of total life cycle costs can be left as 0 with no effect to the rest of

calculation. The comparison is more precise when these additional data are available,

but the data are not strictly necessary.

PILOT 3 (France)

Public lighting renovation of municipality of Saint-Florent – Corsica

More than 55% energy savings in the worst case (1.87 kW = 6.825 MWh per year)

Money savings are 1.517€ per year => 6 years return on investment.



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PILOT 4 (Greece)

Renovation of a public building (school).

Three scenarios were examined:

- replacing the existing boilers with a new one

- replacing the existing fluorescent lamps with LED lamps

- installing a photovoltaic (pv) system

1st scenario (boilers): The difference between the two boilers was observed in price

and efficiency. The results confirmed that the highest efficiency boiler, despite the

fact that it was more expensive, was the best choice.

2nd scenario (lamps): The results confirmed that the more expensive LED Lamps

were the best choice. Compared to conventional bulb, LED avoids 50,102 tons CO2.

3rd scenario (pv system): Case (a) carries the lower price and offers less electricity

production because the pv system consists of a solar panel with highest “NOCT”

index value, and lowest inverter efficiency. Case (b) the photovoltaic will operate

under the “net metering” program; thus the electricity production by the pv system

avoids electricity cost for the school. In the 2nd case, the equivalent avoided

electricity price is 0,09572 €/kWh (under Greek Legislation).

TRANSNATIONAL TEST (Italy, Cyprus)

Commission, build and implement a pv system power rating of 992.25 kwp in

public area that belongs to Municipality of Filiano (PZ), Basilicata, Italy.

Aim of test was (a) to simulate a real e-tender to build and implement a

photovoltaic system in accordance to GRASP procedures, and (b) verify the

difference in terms of LCC between GPP and a tender that considers only the

lowest up-front price without taking into account any green specification.

The lowest-price product was not as cost-efficient as the product with the lowest

sustainable-price. The final result had a negative value for the LCC, which indicates that

both products have possibility to not only save money for the organizations if the energy

is completely used where it is produced (as assumed in this case), but also to make

money for them if there is an excess. The sustainable-price product had a lower

maintenance cost than the lowest upfront-cost, and this makes it more efficient and

economical.

TEST 1 (Greece)

These tests were based on 3 tenders that the Municipality finalized in the past

and had "green" specs limitations. Tenders were under general IT equipment



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category and the products involved were pc monitor (display), portable

computer, printer.

TENDER 1: Municipality fulfilled a tender with demand for 14 LED monitors with

expected value per piece 90€.The outcome of test was that maybe the price set by

the tender was a bit low according to products found in solution database.

TENDER2: Municipality fulfilled a tender with demand for 5 LAN printers with

expected value per piece 700€. From the suggestions made by the e-GPP tool, we

concluded that there was a product that fulfilled most of the requirements -the

noise criterion was not addressed- by a specific product imported in the tool. The

suggested price was 100€ lower than the originally set by the PA. It was realized that

more green criteria could be used to enrich to a more "green" product.

TENDER3: Municipality fulfilled a tender with demand for 1 portable computer with

expected value up to 1500€. From the suggestions made by the e-GPP tool, we

concluded that there were 2 products that fulfilled the ergonomic limitations and

also 2 that were in compliance with power consumption. Only 1 combined the 2

limitations and the suggested price was 1140€, 360€ less than the predicted one by

the tender. As before, it was realized that more green criteria could be used to

enrich to a more "green" product.

TEST 2 (Spain)

Tender for indoor (office) lighting. The tender was a secret bid, the procedures

followed were open and the award criterion was the lowest price.

The lowest-price product was less expensive than the environmental-friendly product

considering the initial purchase price (less than 1/4 of the cost); but in the end, the

sustainable product's LCC was less than half the LCC of the lowest-price product.

TEST 3 (Spain)

The main objective was to compare the obtained results and the efficiency of

the use of GRASP eGPP platform instead of the traditional method of

procurement based on the lowest price up-front. Tender was analyzed through

eGPP platform and applying GRASP methodology; green specifications were

taken into account when purchasing the related product/service given in eGPP

platform.

If the sustainable price is considered in the test, the selected product was FUTURE 10

ACS, provided by SME 8. In this case, the duration doesn’t compensate for the higher

price of the sustainable product. The selected product will need, at least, 35 years to

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TEST 4 (Albania)

An auction tender was tested with reserved procedures and the lowest price as

the award criterion for the purchase of 7 projectors.

The environmentally friendly product saved 0,124 tons of CO2 and a total economic

value 0,9 €. However, the lowest priced product saved more costs during total Life

Cycle.

TEST 5 (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Test-tender was an open procedure for selection of facade works for

Administrative center of City of East Sarajevo, with the characteristics of

classical method compared to characteristics of GRASP method. The award

criterion was a lowest price with a technical specification containing a green

criterion: a minimum performance of the investment in terms of energy

consumption.

Changes in consumption of natural gas: Passing from the unaltered building to the

improved one in regards to energy consumption, the use of natural gas is less than

half for the improved building. Beyond the energy saving that is due to the

reduction of fuel consumption, the operation allows the reduction of CO2 emissions.

Difference in electricity before and after the building retrofitting: in this case the

consumption of energy is higher in the improved building.

Usage of fuel oil: energy consumption for the improved building is zero, while prior

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GREENPARTNERSHIPS

PILOT 1 (Albania)

Providing training courses to educate the young on environmental

protection and the use of alternative sources for energy production.

Feasibility studies.

PILOT 2 (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Feasibility study on creating fund to support energy efficient housing in

cities.

Increasing EE in public school and kindergarten building.

PILOT 3 (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Increasing EE in Eco-schools and public administration buildings.

Feasibility Study on the creation of support fund to energy efficient housing in

cities.

PILOT 4 (Croatia)

Creating possibilities for biomass and biogas producers.

Training courses to educate the young on environmental protection and the use of

alternative sources for energy production.

PILOT 5 (Croatia)

Technical documentation for solar collectors installation - main design:

Construction engineering design (technical description, evidence of

fulfilment and other requirements, control and quality assurance program,

evidence of evaluation cost of construction, drawings).

Mechanical engineering design (technical description, technical

calculations, control and quality assurance program, evidence of

evaluation cost of construction, drawings).

Gathering all stakeholders associated with the biomass, biogas, other RES and energy

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PILOT 6 (Croatia)

Prepared technical solution and investment proposal

Architectural drawings of the existing state of Primary school building

Energy certificate and Energy audit report

Main design of EE improvement of the building (constructional,

mechanical, electrical designs)

Financial calculations and investment return period

Gathering all the stakeholders associated with the biomass, biogas, other RES and

energy efficiencies. Development of GIS model for data analysis, and monitoring RES

and EE. Increasing EE in public school building Primary school “Grigor Vitez”, Sveti Ivan

Žabno.

PILOT 7 (Cyprus)

To invest (if proven viable) in buying dehydrator and biomass burner.

Pilot use of biomass for heating systems in public buildings.

PILOT 8 (France)

Micro-hydropower plant: 300 kW > 1 400 MWh/year.

Pilot ihydro power plant on an irrigation chanal.

PILOT 9 (France)

Measurement of GES emissions.

Reduce energy consumption and GES emissions in agriculture: strengthen

partnerships amongst local stakeholders.

PILOT 10 (Greece)

Bioclimatic design of the open space in an Urban Area in Rethimnon (CR1).

Feasibility study on bioclimatic design.



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PILOT 11 (Greece)

To design appropriate public lighting infrastructure and management at

old town of Rethymnon integrating energy savings, necessary level of

lighting, flow regulation, other lighting conditions

Replicable example to be adapted in other municipalities in the region.

Public lighting implementation study (CR2).

PILOT 12 (Greece)

Reduced Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions, because it will reduce the fossil

fuels required for electricity generation, and minimize operation cost for

the municipality.

Water Pumping EE Improvements (CR3).

PILOT 13 (Italy)

Creation of an Environment and Energy Centre to improve the

coordination of sustainable development in Province via educational

training, awareness campaign, and facilitating creation of Local Partnership

among public institutions and private companies.

Strengthening local public-private partnerships in supporting EE and RES.

PILOT 14 (Italy)

The energy audit is to be done with a bottom-up approach, i.e. students

and professor will also take part in process, collecting data and identifying

potential actions.

Raising awareness and implementing EE upgrading in schools.



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PILOT 15 (Italy)

Develop common financial proposal for public building retrofitting

included in 32 SEAPs. One obstacle to implement SEAP is the lack of

financial resources to do the interventions listed in the Plans.

Mobilisation funds for investments in sustainable energy at local level.

PILOT 16 (Italy)

Aims to improve knowledge and capabilities of the technicians in EE in

buildings as requested by communication activities in the 32 SEAP

approved by the Covenant of Mayors.

Training civil society organisations in energy certification.


Aims to set up possibilities for building the energy network for the dam of

the hydro power plant Jezerščica.

Prepared documentation with feasibility.

PILOT 19 (Slovenia)

Preparation of feasibility study for energy renovation of heritage building.

Feasibility on renovation of the headquarters of KGZS Zavod Mb.

PILOT 20 (Slovenia)

Preparation of feasibility and business plan for investment in biomass

heating for two public buildings.

Prepared documentation for investments.

PILOT 21 (Spain)

Communication, informing and dissemination of the training and the

campaign on best practices in energy use.

Starting up of a “Championship for energy saving” in public buildings.



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PILOT 22 (Spain)

Installation of smart meters in public buildings to measure decrease in use

of electricity and heating,

Monitoring energy consumption of public building to improve energy

management,

Reporting the analysis of energy consumption in different public buildings

in order to decide on new public investments in EE & reduction of energy

consumption, and implement solutions in abnormal consumption at higher

than the recommended ratios.

Installation of remote control systems for energy management in public buildings

participating in “championship”.

PILOT 23 (Spain)

A prospective analysis about evolution of consumption of electricity and

gas at Roca Umbert, considering all activities and uses (present and

future), the solutions applied to improve EE, and what part of the demand

could be covered with the production of electricity, clima, hot water and

heating, from trigeneration (as from gas), so that Roca Umbert becomes a

building with near zero consumption.

A prospective analysis about the evolution of consumption of electricity

and gas at Roca Umbert

An economic study about the feasibility of technical solutions needed

(co/trigeneration plant) for future investments (public and private) in a

selfconsumption system, and provision of energy services to the complex

of Roca Umbert and its different uses.

Technical and economic feasibility study on the installation of trigeneration in the

form of selfconsumption and provision of energy services to Granollers.

PILOT 24 (Portugal)

Optimization of public lighting and renovation of classification for the

public swimming pool.

Renewed building, optimized public lightning.



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MAIN

PILOT 1 (France, Greece, Italy, Spain)

Development of an educational program aimed at disseminating MAIN

(MAteriaux Intelligents) building materials such as cool roofs and cool

pavements, which prevent summer overheating of buildings and urban areas

because of their high capability of reflecting solar radiation.

An original, and up to now missing, educational program has been developed and tested

in all 4 countries of MAIN project, in 7 locations (Nice, Athens, Arezzo, Modena,

Palermo, Palma, Zaragoza. A strong promotion of MAIN materials and their advantages

in terms of EE, thermal comfort, sustainability has been achieved.

PILOT 2 (France, Greece, Italy, Spain)

Development of a method aimed at implementing demonstrative pilot

applications of MAIN (MAteriaux Intelligents) building materials such as cool

roofs and cool pavements, which prevent summer overheating of buildings and

urban areas because of their high capability of reflecting solar radiation.

The method has been applied to 5 buildings (plus one small scale, fully instrumented

installation), having different climates and involving both new and refurbished buildings,

and different types of used materials such as paints and waterproofing membranes. A

cool pavement installation, uncommon in Europe, has been included.



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MARIE

PILOT 1 (Italy)

Legislative framework. To provide Strategic Lines for Legislative Innovation to

facilitate the building energy renovation in MED space.

Integration of European, National, Regional and Local policies in energy efficiency in

buildings in the operational legislative framework for both offer and demand.

Efficient implementation of corresponding legislation for energy efficiency in

buildings and verification of compliance with the corresponding legislation.

Simplified administrative procedures for implementing energy efficiency

refurbishments at regional and local level.


Urban Plans for EE Improvement, concentrating on the design and test of an

urban planning model for buildings energy renovation development.

In Andalusia, the feasibility of energy related intervention assumed by the private sector

is more limited than the one referred to public buildings. The main result of this pilot is

to find new ways of public private partnership (PPP).

PILOT 3 (Spain)

To increase demand for energy efficient renovation of buildings of MED

territory by creating a method to develop regional investment plans for energy

renovation of existing buildings by integrating all agents involved, to assure

that the proposed plan is feasible, considering special case of districts with

low-income residents.

Main result is the elaboration of an Investment Programme Model for Energy

Renovation in Buildings that has been tested in Catalonia, and comprises an enhanced

feasible replicability for most possible public and private investing lines.

PILOT 4 (Spain)

To improve the EE of the MED Building Stock by using fibreboard of regional,

natural, and renewable materials i.e. cork, cellulose or wood fibre in an

innovative building construction system.



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PILOT 5 (Italy)

To introduce gradually the LCC (as part of LCA) method in a traditionally

“conservative” market, such as building sector, helping private stakeholders to

become experts of these new ways of public tenders before full introduction of

complete WLCC method (when final methods are defined and agreed).

The test revealed that LCC can be an effective methodology to be used in place of the

traditional economic evaluation parameters (investment costs) and together with the

more traditional technical and environmental parameters (energy savings,

environmental quality of materials).

PILOT 6 (France)

Inciting SMEs to generate and supply local demand for EE through support

measures addressing their needs.

Boosting local demand through innovative communication actions.

Renover+ website

Long preparatory stage involving contacts with professionals and businesses

Press relations

Specific tools to support the professionals (Protocol of renovation called 123 réno;

Training)

PILOT 7 (France)

Awareness campaigns to increase the experience and knowledge related to the

main objective of the communication strategic measures.

The Illa Efficient public contest is the outstanding output of this pilot, serving as a model

to develop further programmes and activities. The pilot action consists of a design

competition on how to renovate a block in Barcelona.

PILOT 8 (Spain)

Training courses. To test training programme model based on real cases and

best practices of ERB.



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PILOT 9 (Spain)

To reach a high level of consensus with regional policy makers and

involved local agents on ERB proposals.

At regional level to enhance the inter-administrative coordination on ERB

policies, and involve all private agents with role in ERB policy in region.

To disseminate and share the experience with other regions developing or

willing to implement this pilot.

The Forum of Entities was created, comprising ca. 100 private and public institutions,

companies, guilds, and made a commitment to develop the Catalan Strategy for EEB,

called ECREE.

PILOT 10 (Spain)

MARIE Business Network, to promote cooperation and to share the results and

knowledge amongst members.

Business Cooperation Plan.

PILOT 11 (Spain)

MARIE APP Platform, to integrate a database of innovative products and

services to make them available in the market and promote their use.

The APP records a moderate traffic in terms of inputs and visits; the APP utilities are not

developed completely, so its impact as a catalyst for cooperation is limited. For these

reasons, the concept and functions of the Platform has been redefined, becoming the

basis of the Cooperation Hub proposal.



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PVNET Meteorological measurements (POA Irradiance, Ambient temperature,

module temp)

PV production measurements

Use this data with the Net-metering optimisation tool

Analyze data to determine seasonal domestic load behavior and seasonal

POA irradiance and PV potential

PILOT 1 (Cyprus)

Successfully determined the Load profile of NEM consumers in Cyprus

Found the seasonal solar potential of locations in Cyprus (mountainous and flat

land)

Data used to train and optimise the “NEM policy optimisation tool”

PILOT 2 (Portugal)

Successfully determined the Load profile of domestic consumers in Portugal

Found the seasonal solar potential of locations in Algarve (mountainous & flat land)

Data used to train and optimise the "NEM policy optimisation tool"

PILOT 3 (Slovenia)

Successfully determined the Load profile of domestic consumers in Slovenia

Found the seasonal solar potential of locations in Slovenia (mountainous & flat

land)

Data used to train and optimise the "NEM policy optimisation tool"



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REPUBLIC MED (selected)

PILOT 1 (Croatia)

Demonstration of method in a primary school of Zadar. Conclusions on

technical and financial benefits produced by more accurate building energy

analysis taking into account local climate and end-users behaviour profiles (as

recommended by new directive 2010/31/EC and its supportive regulation

244/2012/EC.

Identification of optimum retrofit based on the suggested numerical approach:

Envelope retrofits include a thermal insulation with 8 cm of mineral wool on walls

and 14 cm of mineral wool in flat roof

Replacement of the few existing old metal windows with new PVC windows

(Uw=1.4 W/m2K).

Replacement of old standard boiler with condensing boiler, replacement of three-

speed pump with variable-speed drive (VSD pump), added pipe insulation and

added thermostatic radiator valves, mechanical ventilation units are integrated in

the VRF system and are simulated assuming sensible heat recovery of 75%.

Compensation of futile load.

PILOT 2 (Croatia)

Demonstration of method for Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigation purposes.

Introduction of microclimate and social (comfort and air quality) indicators and

design criteria to ensure better living conditions in urban context.

Optimal orientation and selection of trees, grass and cool pavements to ensure:

Minimization of mean temperature at noon of the hottest day of the year

Improvement of thermal comfort at noon of the hottest day of the year.

At least no reduction of mean air temperature on the typical winter day.

At least no deterioration of thermal comfort on the typical winter day.

Retain wind-speed at acceptable levels (to avoid draught discomfort)

PILOT 3 (Greece)

Demonstration of method in primary school of Piraeus. Conclusions on

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analysis taking into account local climate and end-users behaviour profiles (as

recommended by new directive 2010/31/EC and its supportive regulation

244/2012/EC).

Description of suggested retrofit technologies/techniques:

Windows and glass doors with U = 3 W/ m²K

New 21 W LED lights in classes A’ and B’ floor and in the Computer Class

according to T.O.T.E.E. 20701/1-2010 3rd Edition.

New gas boiler with efficiency factor 0,93

Split A/C units with COP 3,5

PILOT 4 (Greece)

Demonstration of method for Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigation purposes.

Introduction of microclimate and social (comfort and air quality) indicators and

design criteria to ensure better living conditions in urban context.

Optimal orientation and selection of trees, grass and cool pavements to ensure:

Minimization of mean temperature at noon of the hottest day of the year

Improvement of thermal comfort at noon of the hottest day of the year.

At least no reduction of mean air temperature on the typical winter day.

At least no deterioration of thermal comfort on the typical winter day.

Retain wind-speed at acceptable levels (to avoid draught discomfort)



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SINERGIA Energy monitoring, energy consumption evaluation

42 different agrofood enterprises energy consumption data and selection of reference

values to identify sectorial benchmark about energy consumption.

PILOT 1 (Croatia)

PILOT 2 (Slovenia)

PILOT 3 (Italy)

PILOT 4 (France)

PILOT 5 (Greece)

PILOT 6 (Spain)



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SMARTINMED

PILOT 1 (Andalusia, Rhones Alpes, Toscana, Lombardia, Piemonte, Croatia,

Western Macedonia, Attiki)

Test SMARTINMED BUSINESS MODEL TOOL to perform company evaluation.

Test real strategies to improve company competitiveness and job level capacity

in medium & long term.

SMARTinMED tool is translated in a tool kit (APP) to be easily used by SMEs and

clusters, built on real Mediterranean experiences and devoted to RE and EE,

providing immediate feedback and solution to business

A SWOT analysis on competitiveness of MED SMEs

A useful insight on the introduction or improvement of public support measures

and tools for SMEs focused on business model innovation

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